Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lively and rather loud woman 's voice could be heard below them in the drive , speaking to Giancarlo in very quick Italian . |
| 2 | The Times was highly critical of what it called ‘ these usurious companies ’ , but their creation was a genuine attempt by the government of the day to provide the less privileged members of society with a state money-lender which hopefully they would find more trustworthy than the neighbourhood pawnbroker ; and presumably each society 's secretary was able to provide some kind of money management advice to those who needed it . |
| 3 | He told a Westminster press gallery lunch that the problem was not the properly prepared Queen 's Speech programme of bills , but the demand for instant legislation following a serious event , with ministers being deemed failures if they did not promise a new bill . |
| 4 | A stem and rather humourless vicar 's wife angrily rejected the offer of morning newspapers , admonishing the bemused Hilary with ‘ I only read the psalms at breakfast ’ — there were angry looks all round . |
| 5 | I know in the recession of lot of parents have been forced to do just that , but it was always going to be a last resort and thankfully this winter 's tour means they can stay on where they are . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , indeed I did , ’ he said brightly , as though he merely indulged a rather dim child 's curiosity . |
| 7 | It became an extremely successful series , done with Professor Chris Kiernan , with a special agenda for mentally-handicapped children but appearing like a rather glossy children 's comic . |
| 8 | This explains very clearly why Matilda is far and away the most popular children 's book I have written and was bought by over half a million children in Britain alone in the first six months . |
| 9 | Coming later on this evening 's programme . |
| 10 | I hope that in future more of this highly professional group 's work will be made available to the public . |
| 11 | We think that it is appropriate not only that King 's Cross should be the terminus for a rail link but that underground and Network SouthEast facilities should be improved at that station . |
| 12 | Does he accept that not only that youth 's family but many other people have a total lack of comprehension as to how someone could be hanged in this country when he was in police custody when the gun was fired and the unfortunate police officer was killed by another person ? |
| 13 | I enjoyed all the tennis that I saw , not only Steffi Graf 's match — in fact the match I enjoyed the most was the semi-final between Shriver and Zvereva , and Elna Reinach and Sandy Collins . |
| 14 | Like the band constantly fighting to retain independent artistic control on a major label , the Oxbridge fops can never erase or taint the effect their original shows had on comedy and the world at large , no matter how much rich men 's folly ( children 's books , crap US film cameos , endless cash-in-books and records , the SDP ) they involve themselves in now . |
| 15 | Out of control it caused dreadful havoc , but when it ran smoothly and sweetly it not only modified life 's aridity but added a pleasing dimension to the view , while Lydia , at present , was using it only to make mud pies . |
| 16 | Perhaps some people 's preoccupation with job titles on business cards is compensation for this . |
| 17 | So Marine Mining 's vessel will bring the waste to a floating buoy 700 m from the shore at Gwithian . |
| 18 | Apparently this chap 's father had been criticised severely after the fall of the Gang of Four , and he had gone a bit berserk . |
| 19 | Was that apparently empty fisherman 's hut an abandoned home or a gun emplacement ? |
| 20 | This comes in dried and liquid forms and is basically reduced-fat cow 's milk with added vitamin D and iron — the two essentials missing from full cow 's milk . |
| 21 | This , however , was too much for the Government and , using the excuse that public opinion was not yet ready to accept the protection of many unpopular modern buildings , Lord Caithness , the Minister of State for the Environment , arbitrarily whittled down English Heritage 's list to 18 buildings - excluding Bankside — although it represented a more traditional approach in the Fifties to the now-unfashionable Modern Movement . |
| 22 | So this afternoon 's news that Paul Getty is prepared to give a million pounds to help construct a building to house the mediaeval map and chained library has presented the townfolk here with yet another opportunity of keeping their heritage intact . |
| 23 | So this week 's question is : |
| 24 | It may smack of undue determinism to suggest that only this system 's replacement will achieve anything and that its renovation will achieve nothing . |
| 25 | Every man of us knows now how the reliquary was filched and borne away , it wants only this boy 's testimony to give the thief a face and a name . |
| 26 | In the corner of the picture was a holdall , a scientist would say it was the same as that used to weigh down Chalky White 's body when it was found in the lake near Cirencester . |
| 27 | I suppose I envy you , piecing together old Ash 's world-picture . |
| 28 | The somewhat less imposing Noah 's Ark Pet Shop in Northfield , Birmingham , is also listed by FIND the Film Information National Database set up by the commission at a cost of £500,000 . |
| 29 | The first was not so much Offa 's death on 26 or 29 July 796 ( ASC D , s.a. 796 ) as the death of Ecgfrith , his successor , 141 days later ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) which threatened all that Offa had struggled to achieve within Mercia and created dynastic uncertainty at the centre of the Mercian polity as royal power was assumed by Coenwulf , a prince claiming descent not from Eowa or Penda but from a certain Coenwealh , allegedly in the genealogies a brother of Eowa and Penda ( see Appendix , Fig. 8 ) . |
| 30 | The significance of the battles of Stamford Bridge and Hastings in 1066 hardly needs emphasis ; though we do well to recall that it was not so much William 's victory , as the fact that the two battles had removed his two most serious rivals for the throne , which made the year so decisive in English and Norman history . |